Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is because the Minister has not allocated the additional NDP capital, as he made clear in the summer economic statement. He is putting an additional €250 million into capital but he did not allocate that at the time of the budget. Discussions are now going on between Departments in respect of that. We made clear at the time of the €176 million announcement that that would not suffice and that we certainly needed to be in and around the levels we spent last year.